I Became the Devil Queen's Heart Demon novel Chapter 1441

Chapter 1441: Chapter 559: Betrothing Yu Youhan! The Demon Lord’s Pact! (8K)

The situation in Tiandu City is far worse than imagined.

According to the disaster assessment team’s door-to-door statistics, the death toll from this catastrophe reached an astounding 120,000!

This was after Chen Mo used his divine skills to bring down sweet rain, healing those seriously injured citizens; otherwise, the death toll might have doubled!

Besides, the financial loss is astronomical, with a large number of houses destroyed and the affected citizens displaced.

Fortunately, the court reacted promptly, setting up numerous tents around the city to shelter refugees. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Revenue opened the granary and distributed relief grains and disaster silver based on headcount. Just in recent days, the treasury has disbursed nearly a million taels!

If it weren’t for the Empress’s diligent governance and hard work over the years, making Da Yuan’s treasury ample, it might truly not have been sustainable!

At the request of the Empress, the Ministry of Construction is responsible for repairing the damaged houses, without charging any fees. This further appeases the disaster victims, preventing a surge in public resentment.

Ling Yishan, on the other hand, leads the Demon Suppression Department sponsors to reconstruct the city defense array.

The array used is provided by Chen Mo, named the "Ninefold Mysterious Dome Refining Heaven Array."

Compared to the Eightfold Exorcism Array, which forcibly anchored the Dragon Vein, this array is more mysterious, replacing the blood refinement and evil transformation "Blood Decree Stele" with the "Jiangshan Pillar" that gathers public sentiment to suppress the Earth Veins, preventing similar tragedies from happening again.

Once the grand array is completed, it can refine national fate, forming a wheel of four seasons, making weather orderly, ensuring bountiful harvests regardless of droughts or floods.

Most importantly, the influence range of the wheel of four seasons will continuously expand along the Earth Veins. As long as the "Jiangshan Pillar" stands firm, it can spread from Tiandu City to Central State, even covering the entire Jiu Zhou territory!

By then, Da Yuan will enter a true golden era!

This is also a decision jointly made by Chen Mo and the Empress; rather than tying the national fate to one individual, it’s better to bless the entire populace. Only in this way can human civilization truly endure.

Besides, there were changes within the palace.

The news of the Emperor and Empress Dowager’s successive demise was also released, but it didn’t cause much stir.

Having gone through such calamity, the people have already become numb; they are themselves precarious, who would care about the Emperor’s life or death?

According to Da Yuan’s ceremonial system, after the Emperor’s demise, the Ministry of Rites drafts an obituary, laying the body in the sleeping palace for three days. After setting the temple title and posthumous title, the body will be sent to the newly rebuilt Fengqiu Imperial Mausoleum.

The two funeral rites are coordinated simultaneously, the whole process is silent and swift.

Compared to before, this grand funeral is too small-scale, even could be said to be simplistic, but no one questioned it.

Only a few people in the court know, the Fengqiu Imperial Mausoleum is completely empty, even inside the coffin of Wu Lie there’s no body, only a large fur robe.

Typically at odds with the late Emperor, the Princess this time accompanied throughout the process. Even after sealing the tomb, she refused the sacrificial rites, staying alone in the cemetery, letting no one approach.

Upon learning this, the Empress sighed deeply.

To lose two close relatives in just one day, this kind of pain is unbearable for anyone.

But during this period, she is still busy with the Crown Prince’s enthronement ceremony, and hasn’t managed to spare time to accompany the other.

After all, a country cannot go a day without a monarch.

In the past, when they went to court, were they bowing to that monstrous being, chanting long live to it?

Just the thought of it sends chills down their backs!

Once this matter spread, it stirred up a great turmoil in the court, Minister of War Yin Zhao fell ill upon hearing it.

Vice Minister of the Ministry of War Lei Xiwen, along with Five Cities Military Department Commander, successively submitted resignation letters, citing illness and mourning as reasons.

Everyone understood well, during this big reshuffle of the court, the Ministry of War would be the first to bear the brunt. Resigning was the most decent ending; waiting for the Empress to investigate them would not be just about losing positions.

Dong——

At that moment, a gong sound arose.

The voice of Eunuch Jin came from outside the hall:

"Her Majesty the Empress, His Highness the Crown Prince have arrived!"

"Her Majesty, His Highness the Crown Prince, long live, long live, long long live!"

The ministers responded in unison, like a collapsing golden mountain or jade pillar, kneeling on the ground, shouting in unison.

Accompanied by light footsteps, two figures, tall and short, entered the hall.